❝ Music speaks your soul when words fail to do so.❞
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⠀⠀⠀ In which they're symphonies too sickly sweet when sung together. But when circumstances do arise, Ash and Serena realize that they can't really exist in the same melody...
"I'm going out!" I announced in a hurry before getting into my denim slip-ons in the entryway. Time flew away like the lightest feathers while I was figuring out what to wear - though that's never my first concern - and it was five o'clock already.
"Where to?" Lillie dryed her hands with the frayed apron she was wearing, glaring straight into my soul. I hate this sweet and skeptical duality of older siblings.
"Just - for a little walk," I hesitated. "The weather's nice today."
She leaned against the kitchen island, unsatisfied. "Can your sister join too?"
"No! I mean. . ." I managed to giggle. "You know I hate jogging unlike you, right? Maybe you'll get bored with me. I'm a total snail compared to your pace after all. Pfft!"
"Mhm," The stretched syllable quadrupled my tension, and then she added, "You're right, plus, I think someone out of us should stay back and look after the house."
"Yeah- Yeah that too." My lips twitched. "So am I allowed to leave now?"
She dragged her bare feet back to the washbasin, attention recollecting towards the dishes. "Yup. Be back before dinner."
I wasn't sure why did I smile so wide at that confirmation. It wasn't the same when I had begged her for those white curtains or that out-of-budget Dell laptop, then why now? Was it because we were talking about an actual person, and not an object?
I grabbed my wallet containing canvas bag from the wall hook by the main door and turned the knob; but what she spoke next chilled me to the flesh as well as the bone - and I stood there, dumbfounded.
"I'd love to meet this guy if you're ready to bring him home someday," A pause. "Or, wait, is it a her?"
My ears were two steaming engines as I clicked the door open. "Shut your mouth, Lillie!" And slammed it close.
Her laugh was so cynically loud that it was still audible when I was about to step downstairs.
She knew. How and when and why? Only she knew. And oh heavens I can't even imagine how spicy these teasings are gonna get in case she'll meet him.
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Ash had texted me saying that he'll be waiting by the duck pond in the park near May's house. Perhaps my lie to escape had clayed itself into reality, because outdoors the weather was actually pretty calm and chill. The sky was a bright blue roof, air was tolerably warm and perfumed with the freshest cherry blossoms.
